‘BRITISH COLUMBIA

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Canadian Pacific Railway Steamship, ‘‘ Bonnington.” The first steel hull steamship
on British Columbia Lakes.

VANCOUVER ISLAND LANDS.

Without doubt Vancouver Island is destined to play an important
part in the development of the Pacific Coast. It has rich mineral deposits, :
it has a great weaith of timber, its fisheries are developing into great
wealth producers, and it has unexcelled agricultural lands.

By the recent completion of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway to
Alberni, an even greater area than ever of these timber and farming lands
is brought within easy reach of the new settler. The railway offers the
best of services, and the settler along its lines is sure of good transporta-
tion facilities. An important feature of the Esquimalt and Nanaimo
Railway is that, by its completion to Port Alberni that point is made the
most westerly station in North America, with transcontinental connection.
It is also the nearest Canadian port to the Orient.

Not only is there great opportunity for the farmer in this part of
British Columbia, but there is also offered a profitable future for the lover |
of the orchard. Of the larger varieties of fruit, plums, pears and cherries
have given marvellous returns with great regularity, and seem highly
adapted to the soil and climate. Apples give good crops, and the fruit is
large and well colored. To the man who wants from five to ten acres of
fruit lands, the Island offers exceptional inducements, the conditions of
drought which are so fatal to success in growing small fruits are rarely
met with, there being plenty of rainfall and sunshine to produce large
well developed fruit.

ESQUIMALT AND NANAIMO RAILWAY LANDS.

The Esquimalt and Nanaimo Railway Company owns nearly 1,200,000
acres of agricultural, timber and mineral lands on Vancouver Island, extend-
ing from Otter Point on the south-west coast to Crown Mountain in the